More adventures in upcycling

I really should have got a picture of this little table before I started painting. I picked it up cheap because it has similar carvings to the buffet I plan to use in our room and I wanted to play with some ideas I have. Plus I wanted to play with the metallic glazes I  had picked up at Home depot.(bad, evil, and wrong place that it is)

  I started out with a coat of Gliddens gripper grey primer, I LOVE this stuff due to the fact I don't have to worry about sanding.  Then I decided to go with a paint labeled red hot I had picked up off the sale/oops rack at Walmart.(All stores have an area set aside for stuff like that and you can find some great scores) As you can see it was much more pink than I personally care for but I decided since I was glazing it with a dark color I could deal with it. I did change plans though and decided to paint the top black for contrast.

The glaze I used on the red/pink is from Martha Stewart and is a metallic coffee. The Black got a glaze of silver halo just so I could see what it came out like.

It sure did make a difference in how it looked!  For something I got basically to learn on it was much less disappointing when done than I had expected...lol. As a matter of fact I decided to hold on to it for now because ....

it makes a great supply cabinet!